Commerce Department: Tighter Controls Needed For Cyberweapons

Jul 21

From: KUNC Community Radio for Northern Colorado

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Federal regulators are looking to place tighter controls on the export of cyberweapons following the megabreaches against the Office of Personnel Management and countless retailers.

The Commerce Department wants to ensure that software that can attack a network — the kind that can break in, bypass encryption and steal data — can’t be shipped overseas without permission. But the cybersecurity industry is up in arms.

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